Holder for sanitary or single-service cups or other receptacles.



A. BURGESS. HOLDER FOR SANITARY 0R SINGLE SERVICE CUPS OR OTHER RECEPTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAYII'L IQIB.

1 299,1120, Patented Apr. 1, 1919 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASHTON BURGESS, 0F REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN. CANADA.

HOLDER FOR SANITARY OCR. SINGLE-SERVICE CUPS OR OTHER RECEPTACLES.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ASHTON BURGESS, a subject of the King of Great Britain. residing at Regina, in the Province of Saskatche- -wan. Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Sanitary or Single-Service Cups or other Receptacles. of which the following is a Specification.

My invention relates to a holder for sanitary or single service cups, dishes, or other receptacles; and the principal object of the invention is to provide a holder with a simple and convenient device whereby the cup or other receptacle for which the holder is intended to be used may be momentarily engaged with or caused to adhere to the holder so that the cup, for example, may be lifted from a stack or nest of cups, without being touched by the hands of the person who is serving. Paper single service cups or dishes have come into general use at soda fountains, ice cream parlors. and elsewhere, for dispensing beverages. ice cream and other articles of food, and the advantages. for sanitary reasons, of this method of service at public places are obvious. If, however, the attendant is obliged to handle the cups. that is, separate acup from the stack or nest with his hands 'and place it in the holder, the advantage of cleanliness in using single service receptacles may be lost to a certain extent at least. .In accordance with my invention the holder for the single service receptacle is provided with a simple device for creating a suction between the receptacle and the holder, when the holder is placed over the upper receptacle for the stack. for example, which operates to cause the receptacle to adhere to a holder long enough to enable the cup to be withdrawn from the stack and the holder with the cup therein turned right side up.

The invention is illustrated in a typica embodiment. susceptible. however, of wide modification as to shape and proportion of the parts. in the accompanying drawing wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the cup holder with a sanitary or single service paper cup therein.

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan View of the bottom or base of the holder, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a stack of cups showing the manner in which a cup is removed from the stack by the holder Patented Apr. 1, ran.

Application filed May 13; 1918. Serial No. 234,313.

-.Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

It will be realized that the shape. size and general proportions of the holder will vary in accordance with the type of receptacle wlth which it is designed to be used. I have shown the invention in connection with a holder for cups of conical shape but the invention is not limited to this particular form of receptacle. The holder embodied in the invention herein shown comprises a flaring cup-h0lding portion 10. a hollow stem 11 and an outwardly flaring base portion 12. The sanitary cups, which are ordinarilv of paper. properly treated so that they will hold liquids. are designed to fit rather snugly in the cup holding portion 10 of the holder. one of these cups being indicated at 13 in Fig. 1 of the drawing. Secured to the under side of the base 12 of the holder is a flexible diaphragm 14. This diaphragm may be held in air-tight relation to the holder by any suitable means. for example. by means of a ring 15 and screws 16.

In Fig. 3 a stack of cups 13 is shown in a receptacle '17. these cups being nested and arranged in inverted position. To remove one of these cups from a stack the holder is turned upside down and placed over the uppermost cup in the manner showirin this figure, the attendant pressing in the diaphragm 14 with his thumb before the holder comes in contact with the cup. By releasing the diaphragm the air in the space 18 provided between the diaphragm and the cup is rarefied so that the cup will be caused to adhere to the holder with sufiicient force to allow the holder and cup to be removed from the stack and turned into upright position. In view of the very obvious possibility of modifying the device of my invention without any departure from the principle of the invention it will be understood that I. do not limit the invention to the form and construction shown and described except as the claims hereto appended are specifically so limited.

I claim:

1. A holder for a single service or sanitary receptacle having a receptacle holding por tion and a portion providing a space adjacent the receptacle. in combination with a flexible diaphragm which extends across said space for the purpose of producing a rarefication of the air therein.

2. A- holder for a single service or sanitary receptacle having a receptacle holding portion into which the receptacle is adapted to fit snugly and formed with a space below the receptacle holding portion, in combination with means for rarefying the air in said space so that the receptacle wi-lladhere to the holder.

3. A holder for a single service or sanitary receptacle having a receptacle holding portion into which the receptacle is adapted to fit snugly and formed with a space below the receptacle holding portion, in combination with a flexible dia hragm which extends across said space, En the purpose described.

4. A holder for a single serYice or sanitary receptacle having a receptacle holding portion, a hollow stem and a hollow flaring base, in combination with a diaphragm on the under side of the base extending across the space within the same, for the purpose described.

ASHTON BURGESS. 

